Commercial Break: Iggy Cock

A year ago, music fans of a certain age and persuasion were alarmed, nay enraged, nay heartbroken to see Iggy Pop sully a 40-year-long reputation for being effortlessly cool smashed apart into bits by his appearance in an advert for a frigging insurance company.

When it later turned out that the company in question, Swiftcover, refused to insure rockers like Mr Pop, the ad was briefly banned. But now Iggy is back, and is behind the wheel of an automobile and, we can only assume, with a few potato sacks filled with silver coins stuffed in the boot.

Yes, it’s another Swiftcover ad, and this time Iggy (played by Hugh Laurie’s grandfather) is accompanied by what at first glance appears to be his own penis sporting a ladies wig. The overriding message is that Swiftcover will give you a quote in under 60 seconds, allowing you more time in your life.

Time for driving around LA with an out-of-control Spitting Image puppet behaving like a complete bell end in the passenger seat, presumably. Iggy, you’re dead to us.